Halton (provincial electoral district)

Halton is a provincial electoral district in Central Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. It was created in 1999 from all of Halton North and part of Halton Centre. The riding also existed from 1867 to 1902. and from 1905 to 1967.

When the riding was created, it included all of the Regional Municipality of Halton north of a line following Dundas Street to Highway 407 to Upper Middle Road to Walkers Line to the QEW to Burlington City limits to Upper Middle Road.

In 2007, the riding lost all of the Town of Halton Hills. Also, the border following the 407 is altered so that it follows Guelph Line instead. Also, the territory east of Eighth Line and south of Dundas Street is also lost.

Members of Provincial Parliament

Halton
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created
1st	1867–1871		William Barber	Liberal
2nd	1871–1874		William Barber	Liberal
3rd	1875–1879		William Durie Lyon	Liberal
4th	1879–1883		David Robertson	Liberal
5th	1883–1886		William Kerns	Conservative
6th	1886–1890
7th	1890–1894
8th	1894–1898
9th	1898–1902		John Roaf Barber	Liberal
Riding dissolved
Riding re-created
11th	1905–1908		Alfred Westland Nixon	Conservative
12th	1908–1911
13th	1911–1914
14th	1914–1919
15th	1919–1920		John Featherstone Ford	United Farmers
15th	1920–1923		Ernest Charles Drury	United Farmers
16th	1923–1926		George Hillmer	Conservative
17th	1926–1929		George Hillmer	Conservative
18th	1929–1934		Thomas Aston Blakelock	Liberal
19th	1934–1937
20th	1937–1943
21st	1943–1945		Stanley Hall	Progressive Conservative
22nd	1945–1948
23rd	1948–1951
24th	1951–1955
25th	1955–1959
26th	1959–1962
27th	1963–1967		George Albert Kerr	Progressive Conservative
Riding dissolved
Riding re-created from Halton North and Halton Centre
37th	1999–2003		Ted Chudleigh	Progressive Conservative
38th	2003–2007
39th	2007–2011
40th	2011–2014
41st	2014–Present		Indira Naidoo-Harris	Liberal

Election results

Ontario general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Indira Naidoo-Harris	33,724	44.79	+5.66
	Progressive Conservative	Ted Chudleigh	27,937	37.10	-7.37
	New Democratic	Nik Spohr	9,758	12.96	-0.19
	Green	Susan Farrant	2,618	3.48	+1.30
	Libertarian	Kal Ghory	916	1.22	–
	Family Coalition	Gerry Marsh	346	0.46	-0.04
Total valid votes			75,299	100.0
Eligible voters			149,633
	Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+6.52
Source: Elections Ontario^[1]

Ontario general election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Ted Chudleigh	26,228	44.47	+1.89
	Liberal	Indira Naidoo-Harris	23,080	39.13	-1.83
	New Democratic	Nik Spohr	7,757	13.15	+5.58
	Green	Karen Fraser	1,286	2.18	-5.78
	Family Coalition	Tony Rodrigues	296	0.50	-0.42
	Freedom	Gina Van Den Burg	168	0.28
	Independent	Phil Buck	166	0.28
Total valid votes			58,981	100.00
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			181	0.31
Turnout			59,162	45.99
Eligible voters			128,643
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+1.86
Source: Elections Ontario^[2]

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Ted Chudleigh	23,391	42.58	-5.62
	Liberal	Gary Zemlak	22,497	40.96	+0.64
	Green	Andrew Chlobowski	4,375	7.96	+6.10
	New Democratic	Pat Heroux	4,159	7.57	-0.44
	Family Coalition	Stan Lazarski	506	0.92	-0.69
Total valid votes			54,928	100.00

Ontario general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Ted Chudleigh	33,610	48.20	-16.75
	Liberal	Barbara Sullivan	28,112	40.32	+13.31
	New Democratic	Jay Jackson	5,587	8.01	+2.83
	Green	Matthew Raymond Smith	1,295	1.86	+0.39
	Family Coalition	Giuseppe Gori	1,123	1.61	+0.23
Total valid votes			68,432	100.00

Ontario general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Ted Chudleigh	35,505	64.95
	Liberal	Mohan Anand	14,767	27.01
	New Democratic	Jay Jackson	2,833	5.18
	Green	Bill Champ	806	1.47
	Family Coalition	Giuseppe Gori	755	1.38
Total valid votes			54,666	100.00

2007 electoral reform referendum

Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	33,302	62.5
	Mixed member proportional	20,019	37.5
	Total valid votes	53,321	100.0

Sources

↑ Elections Ontario (2014). "Official result from the records, 030 Halton" (PDF). Retrieved 27 June 2015.
↑ Elections Ontario (2011). "Official return from the records / Rapport des registres officiels - Halton" (PDF). Retrieved 3 June 2014.

Elections Ontario Past Election Results

Provincial ridings in Ontario

Northern	Algoma—Manitoulin Kenora—Rainy River Nickel Belt Nipissing Parry Sound—Muskoka Sault Ste. Marie Sudbury Thunder Bay—Atikokan Thunder Bay—Superior North Timiskaming—Cochrane Timmins—James Bay

Eastern	Glengarry—Prescott—Russell Kingston and the Islands Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington Leeds—Grenville Prince Edward—Hastings Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry

Central	Barrie Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound Dufferin—Caledon Durham Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock Newmarket—Aurora Northumberland—Quinte West Peterborough Simcoe—Grey Simcoe North York—Simcoe

Midwestern	Brant Cambridge Guelph Haldimand—Norfolk Huron—Bruce Kitchener Centre Kitchener—Conestoga Kitchener—Waterloo Oxford Perth—Wellington Wellington—Halton Hills

Southwestern	Chatham-Kent—Essex Elgin—Middlesex—London Essex Lambton—Kent—Middlesex London—Fanshawe London North Centre London West Sarnia—Lambton Windsor—Tecumseh Windsor West

Brampton, Mississauga & Oakville	Bramalea—Gore—Malton Brampton—Springdale Brampton West Mississauga—Brampton South Mississauga East—Cooksville Mississauga—Erindale Mississauga South Mississauga—Streetsville Oakville

Hamilton, Burlington & Niagara	Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale Burlington Halton Hamilton Centre Hamilton East—Stoney Creek Hamilton Mountain Niagara Falls Niagara West—Glanbrook St. Catharines Welland

Ottawa	Carleton—Mississippi Mills Nepean—Carleton Ottawa Centre Ottawa—Orléans Ottawa South Ottawa—Vanier Ottawa West—Nepean

South Durham, York	Ajax—Pickering Markham—Unionville Oak Ridges—Markham Oshawa Pickering—Scarborough East Richmond Hill Thornhill Vaughan Whitby—Oshawa

Toronto	Beaches—East York Davenport Don Valley East Don Valley West Eglinton—Lawrence Etobicoke Centre Etobicoke—Lakeshore Etobicoke North Parkdale—High Park Scarborough—Agincourt Scarborough Centre Scarborough—Guildwood Scarborough—Rouge River Scarborough Southwest St. Paul's Toronto Centre Toronto—Danforth Trinity—Spadina Willowdale York Centre York South—Weston York West

See also: Federal ridings in Ontario List of elections Politics of Ontario

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